Famous Quotes

We have been collecting famous quotes and famous sayings for many years and we have been putting them out on the internet since 1993 or maybe a bit before that.
The first place we put them was among the first one hundred registered .com domains and that was almost the first thing that went out there after "Hello World!"
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“I call people ‘successful’ not because they have money or their business is doing well but because, as human beings, they have a fully developed sense of being alive and are engaged in a lifetime task of collaboration with other human beings – their mothers and fathers, their family, their friends, their loved ones, the friends who are dying, the friends who are being born.

Success? Don’t you know it is all about being able to extend love to people? Really. Not in a big, capital-letter sense but in the everyday.Little by little, task by task, gesture by gesture, word by word.”

You can vitally influence your life from within by auto-suggestion. The first thing each morning, and the last thing each night, suggest to yourself specific ideas that you wish to embody in your character and personality. Address such suggestions to yourself, silently or aloud, until they are deeply impressed upon your mind.
– Grenville Kleiser

Where upon the father thought, “well, my son’s been to college, he reads the papers and he listens to the radio, and he ought to know.”

So the father cut down on his meat and bun orders, took down his advertising signs, and no longer bothered to stand out on the highway to sell his hot dogs.

And his hot dog sales fell almost overnight.

“You’re right, son” the father said to the boy.

“We certainly are in the middle of a great depression.”

This is posted widely across the Internet with various changes to make it apply to different topics such as “Advertising Does Not Work” and none of these citations has a reference to the original author. If anyone knows where this first was written, please let us know by commenting and if you know of any other interesting variations, please let us know about those as well.

You are unique. In all the world there is no other child exactly
Like you. In the millions of years that have passed there has never
been a child like you. And look at your body-what a wonder it is!
Your legs, your arms, your cunning fingers, the way you move! You may
be a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity
for anything. Yes, you are a marvel.